Times for Flying
A programme of music for two clarinets
Victoria Soames Samek and Colin Lawson – Clarinets, Basset Horns and Bass Clarinet
Victoria Soames Samek and Colin Lawson present a fascinating collection of clarinet duets through the ages. Covering a wide range of styles and idioms, this CD will be a terrific resource for clarinet players wanting to explore the wealth of clarinet duet repertoire. This distinguished list of composers will also prove a hugely attractive CD for listeners new to this idiom.
Including basset-horns Bb,and bass clarinets duets by CPE Bach to Times for Flying, a specially commissioned work for this recording by Sadie Harrison. A programme which ranges from jazzy duets by Gordon Lewin to the iconic Poulenc Sonata for two clarinets, these recordings give a platform for this wonderfully rich and diverse duet repertoire to be heard and enjoyed, as it deserves to be, by audiences beyond its more familiar environment of informal gatherings.
C. P. E. Bach Duet; J. X. Lefèvre Duo Concertant op. 13 no. 3; C. A. P. Braun Duo; Ernesto Cavallini Grand Duet No. 1; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Canzonetta, Tarantella; Alexander Glazunov Four Duets; Francis Poulenc Sonata for two clarinets; Charles Koechlin Idyll; Gunther Schuller Duo Sonata; Gordon Lewin Views of the Blues; Sadie Harrison Times for Flying; László Király Hungarian Folk Songs
Colin Lawson clarinet/basset-horn, Victoria Soames Samek clarinet/basset-horn/bass clarinet
‘Once again Clarinet Classics has appreciably enriched the recorded repertoire with this excellently produced CD.’
CLARINET & SAXOPHONE SOCIETY
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Playing Time: 79 mins.
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